It's that time again folks. Today's topic is a little known story called.
The Fall of Pete and Rise of Cesar.
Back in the Summer of 2003, there was a member named Pete (or maybe it was Tony Leone or lionheart2001, I can't remember when I changed it for good). He was a real go-getter, on the fast track to the stars. Starting out in proverbial mail room, modding the Humor forum back in the Summer of 2001. He worked his way up to Super-mod by 2002 and in the subsequent fallout from The StarSoldier Saga, he had become the newest admin.
Admin work wasn't cut out for Pete. He hated the bureaucracy and the day to day shenanigans of changing people's names, giving them access to areas and resolving issues that couldn't be resolved by the mods. That wasn't for him; he liked to be in the action, chasing down spammers, putting the proverbial boot in the ass.
One fine day, Pete was in an AIM chat with several other TFF members. He decided that because he was friends with everyone there, that he would bestow upon them a gift. A gift of 10000 gil apiece. Back then, gil was earned by posting and could be used to purchase different effects for usernames. The possibilities were truly grand.
Merlin the long-winded had discovered the issuance of such monopoly money (not to be confused with european currency) and was quite furious. He had accused Pete of several things, one being corruption.
A trial of sorts ensued, and instead of standing his ground, Pete simply said "fuck it" and de-admined himself. Later he was stripped of everything but his beloved Emerald Knights clan leadership.
In short, it was one hell of a weekend.
One of the recipients of said gil was a fresh faced young lad, perhaps known to some as LocoColt04. In Pete's "debriefing" with Merlin, he had made it clear to him that the young Colt had done no wrong in receiving the lofty gil award, and was a phenomenal candidate for moderator. After not much convincing, Cesar was awarded a moderator position in the power vacuum created by Pete's dismissal.
And would you look at him now.
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